What is another word for "abuse"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "abuse": abusive, accent, ambiguity, anagram, anathema, antiphrasis, archaic, archaism, argot, aspersion, away, babu, bad, ban, barbarism, bark, big, billingsgate, bite, black, bluster, brogue, broken, bully, byword, call, cant, catachresis, catch, clinch, coin, coiner, colloquial, colloquialism, coloring, commination, comminatory, confusion, construction, corruption.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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